Painting and Website Do-Overs
I just spent more than a week rebuilding my website with FASO
a company I always loved but left.
Many artists don't need as much tech help as me so going it alone, or nearly so, works well for them.
Now that heavy work week is behind me and I am happy.
Please check it out at
Here are a four paintings with which I was not happy.
Let me know what you think about the do-overs.
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| First Painting of Rural Life in France Played too much with color 12x12 |
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| Second Painting of Rural Life in France More accurate color representation as field wasn't ready for harvest Cut off 3 inches; Now a 9x12 |
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| First Painting of In the Garden Direct sun coming through trees with no sky in view caused light to blow out |
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| Reworked Painting of "In the Garden" Invented a sky and minimized tree with white blossoms |
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| First Painting of "Renaissance Flowers" Bottom right didn't please me |
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| Reworked Painting of "Renaissance Flowers" Now bottom right more clearly shows container edge |
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| First painting of Natchez Poppies Paint strokes seemed choppy |
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| Reworked painting of Natchez Poppies There is always so much to learn with painting, technology, marketing that sometimes I get really weary. How do you keep up with all the change and learning? |
warmer colors, clean shapes and more direct statements on all....how can you go wrong with that?! nice work on these and the new web looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary. Your comments mean a lot to me as I respect you greatly as an artist.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these do-overs with us Carol. I don't see anything wrong, but then to see how you made it better, it makes complete sense. Wonderful work :)
ReplyDeleteToday I so appreciate your comments. I have been totally buried in technology with no time to paint. I wondered if I remembered.
Deletelove the "new" paintings. You are so talented! Congratulations on the "new" website too.
ReplyDeleteThank you Celeste. I am highly critical of my art which can be very good sometimes but always unsettling.
ReplyDeleteYour new website looks awesome. Hope you get lots of red dots! I have been with faso.com for over 4 years. They have the best tech support.
ReplyDeleteFASO is certainly best for me....tech help #1 and they are always improving, staying on the cutting edge. Well worth the money.
DeleteYou are going to kill me, but I like the original states of the paintings that you reworked!
ReplyDeleteOh boy....taking a Larisa Aukon workshop this weekend...all about color, color, color! Think I need a psychedelic drug to see what she sees. You are the first to tell me you preferred the original paintings.
DeleteWhat happened to your blog hop post? You didn't do it? Mine will be published on Monday.
ReplyDeleteMy sponsor not quite ready yet so neither am I. It will happen so stay tuned!
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